Does Belos ever get annoyed having Astrophel around 24/7?
Technically yes, but point of clarification, they are not together 24/7.
Belos used a spell to move Astrophel's window to the outside to the Stella-Luna Amulet, which he never takes off, for the convenience of carrying him around, but Astrophel is not actually there. He can interact with Belos and anyone who has touched his window by casting his shadow out of his prison through it, like a shadow puppet on the wall, and depending on where he is the range he can cast his shadow out varies. In the human realm he couldn't be more than a few yards away from the Tablet, in the Demon Realm his range is a couple miles.
(btw shadow puppets has been their favorite game since they met hence the AU title)
They have been friends for a long time, Astrophel can read Belos's moods better than anyone and knows when to cut the crap- however since they have such a long history, Belos has a high tolerance for Astrophel's antics and the Collector has to really take things too far before it actually bothers Belos, and which point he has absolutely no problem telling Astrophel that he's being annoying and needs to dial it back a bit or to leave him alone for a while.
At which point, Astrophel can either just leave and pester the Golden Guard for a little bit (every Grimwalker can see him because they were made from Caleb and he touched the Tablet) or he retreat back into the Amulet for a bit. He can come out, but no one else can come in. So inversely Belos is the one being annoying, and Astrophel doesn't want to deal with his drama, he can pull his shadow back into the Stella-Luna Amulet and there's not a damn thing Belos can do about it, beyond maybe chucking the Amulet across the room or putting it in a drawer for a while.
Well, he could also bury the Amulet but he knows that's going too far.
They may communicate when there's a problem and know when to give each other space, but make no mistake, these two do have fights from time to time, and some times they don't talk to each other for days.
Also remember that I said no one can see or hear Astrophel unless they've touched the Amulet so this is what it looks like to everyone else when they fight and make up
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she ra would NEVER do this to me
*does this to me and worse multiple times*
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I drew this during a haze in the summer of 2021 and literally forgot to post it. I'm not sure why I made it.
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what's the threshold theory
There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.
If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.
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